Category: site review
What a surprisingly delightful place Austin turned out to be. Not exactly sure why I have this latent distrust of Texas; after all you’d have thought I’d have lived through enough racism not to fall into the trap of tarring all with the same brush. But yes, for some strange reason I expected all Texans [...]
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The wonderful Square Productions (no, I have no idea what that means) really do go in-depth when they cover something. Recently they highlighted some of their choice picks and plumped right in the middle was that man Matthew Dear. I missed him when he recently passed through San Francisco, so matching the expectancy of his [...]
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Popularmusicfront has started dishing out digitized versions of his old school house and hip hop collection. Look out for the odd vinyl pop among the gems that will appear on this blog over the coming months.
Early tasters include Hardfloor’s driving acid classic remake of Yeke Yeke and the samba-inspired Give It Up by The Goodmen.
Worth [...]
A few year’s ago in Berlin we came across the excellent Exberliner mag with crystalline music reviews. This month D. Strauss points his ascerbic wit in the direction of The Cure and Herman Dune, among others:
http://www.exberliner.net/records.php?action=inthisissue
As always happens, one search on the web dragged me further than I initially anticipated. In this case, it all turned out OK in the end: I wondered across some wonderful tracks that the UK’s Heatwave posse have shrewdly made available.
A veritable cornucopia of official remixes and “cheeky party-starting bashment/hip hop refixes or mashups”. Pulling [...]
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On the noodle soup that is the web, there are little pockets of raw dubstep mayhem flowing thick and strong. Don’t believe me? Just check out Rinse FM, an old stalwart that has been peddling the sub bass since year dot.
Beware if you sign up to the Podcast, the sheer volume of music spit out [...]
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Plastician17308 - Listen now |
One of the early discoveries on coming to the US has been the wonderful muso-nerd mag Remix. The next discovery was that practically the whole magazine is online. This doesn’t help much for morning reading on the bog, but it does mean I can link to the bits I want to follow up on. Such [...]
what exactly would that be?
perhaps something truly beautiful like the music refinery.
another discovery from the wonderful hype machine. oh, how long will it last?
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i’m reading less and less on a regular basis, and today some phantom coffee has kicked in and left me running around doing nothing getting increasingly stressed. maybe the two things are related. maybe it’s the latent caffeine floating around in the french ether.
either way, i’ve just found my cure. thank you d. strauss. tying [...]
need to make a note of this while i remember. this guy came up in xlr8r recently and emoware’s anti-copyright stance stirred something in the dusky reaches of my consciousness.
illegal art is a movement headed by Philo T. Farnsworth fighting one aspect of copyright – “when it impedes an artist’s ability to interact with pre-existing [...]
